  
| Author: | Stone_Goblin  | | Posted: | Jan 28, 2011 11:00 | | Subject: | Re: Credit Card required to sell on BrickLink | | Viewed: | 47 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| "easily"? That's a stretch, though I can see some AFOL's spending habits as being
potentially harmful to their personal finances. 
The organizations you mention are large and influential in part because of collusion
with political and financial institutions with incentives derived outside of
pleasing customers and open competition. The moral hazard to commit fraud is
directly tied to ones accountability to their actions, or lack thereof.
BrickLink merchants are tethered to feedback and community pressures to maintain
credibility. Certification is not a panacea. In all things, competition can help
to keep participants honest. Competing certification could solve the problem
at any scale.
John @ LibertyBRICK
In Suggestions, CPgolfaddict writes:
| | If we went down this sort of path, we could easily become like other ratings
agency/organizations. See news in recent years in the US regarding:
A. The Better Business Bureau (BBB) giving good ratings to poor companies that
pay the BBB.
B. Debt rating agencies that were part of the problem in the housing market
bubble. (Moody's, Standard & Poor's, etc).
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Message is in Reply To: 37 Messages in this Thread:  Msg 1 - Locutis (69)  163 months ago Jan 28, 2011 to Suggestions
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Msg 3 - Rob_and_Shelagh (26343) 163 months ago Jan 28, 2011 to Suggestions
Msg 4 - Stone_Goblin (4053) 163 months ago Jan 28, 2011 to Suggestions
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Msg 6 « - Stone_Goblin (4053) 163 months ago Jan 28, 2011 to Suggestions
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